Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:
Maria is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Catholic Church, & one of the youngest canonized saints. She was born to a farming family. One afternoon, Alessandro, her employers' twenty-year-old son, made sexual advances to her. When she refused to submit to him, he stabbed her fourteen times. She was taken to the hospital but died forgiving him.Quoth Minute Meditations from the Popes:
Lord Jesus, in a world obsessed with sex, it is easy to lose perspective. Give me the courage to live a life that is chaste, after the example of St. Maria Goretti.Video reflection from Aleteia: The Story of Maria Goretti.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Sexburga of Ely, Abbess (circa 635-699; also spelt Seaxburh, Saxburgh), Queen of Kent, foundress of abbeys at Milton Regis & Minster-in-Sheppey: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Minster.
Commentary: Sister of Ss. Æthelburh of Faremoutiers [7 July], Sæthryth [7 January], Etheldreda [23 June], & Withburga [8 July]; & mother of Ss. Ermenilda of Ely [13 February] & Ercongotha [23 February].
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Thomas Aufield, Priest & Martyr (1552-1585, also spelt Alfield, etc.), martyred in the reign of the English queen Elizabeth I, one of the on hundred fifty-eight Martyrs of Douai: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link; Martyrs-link Douai & Wikipedia-link Douai.
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Maria Teresa Ledóchowska, Religious, S.S.P.C. (1863-1922): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
The Book of Genesis, chapter twenty-seven, verses one thru five & fifteen thru twenty-nine;
Psalm One Hundred Thirty-five, verses one(b) & two, three & four, & five & six;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter nine, verses fourteen thru seventeen.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel people ask Jesus why he and his disciples do not fast when John and his disciples do. Jesus’ answer is wonderful: "How can the guests at a wedding fast while the groom is still with them?" Could you imagine people fasting at a wedding banquet? It would be ridiculous!repent, or change the minds that we have. Another way to get at this is to say that like is known by like. If God is love, then only a soul that is on fire with love will properly take him in.Video reflection by Father Luke Ballman: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Jesus later says, "No one pours new wine into old wineskins." The new wine is the Gospel. The receptacle for this wine must be conformed to it, not the other way around.
To take in the Good News, we can’t be living in the cramped space of our sinful souls. We can’t have an "expect the worst" attitude. Instead we
Mass Readings—Optional Memorial of St. Maria Goretti
The First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter six, verses thirteen(c), fourteen, fifteen(a), & seventeen thru twenty;
Psalm Thirty-one, verses three(c/d) & four, six & eight(a/b), & sixteen(b/c) & seventeen;
The Gospel according to John, chapter twelve, verses twenty-four, twenty-five, & twenty-six.
Scripture Study—Day 91: Covenant Crag, Day 20
The Book of Genesis, chapter fourteen, verses seventeen thru twenty-four.
Commentary: Melchizedek Blesses Abram (Genesis, 14:17-24).
Scripture Study—Pauline Epistles
The Letter to the Galatians, chapter one (of six; verses one thru twenty-four);
The Letter to the Galatians, chapter two (verses one thru twenty-one);
The Letter to the Galatians, chapter three (verses one thru twenty-nine);
The Letter to the Galatians, chapter four (verses one thru thirty-one);
The Letter to the Galatians, chapter five (verses one thru twenty-six);
The Letter to the Galatians, chapter six (of six; verses one thru eighteen).
Commentary: Salutation (Galatians, 1:1-5), There Is No Other Gospel (1:6-10), Paul's Vindication of His Apostleship (1:11-24), Paul & the Other Apostles (2:1-10), Paul Rebukes Peter at Antioch (2:11-21), Law or Faith (3:1-14), the Promise to Abraham (3:15-18), the Purpose of the Law (3:19-4:7), Paul Reproves the Galatians (4:8-20), the Allegory of Hagar & Sarah (4:21-31), Christian Freedom (5:1-15), the Works of the Flesh & the Fruit of the Spirit (5:16-26), Bear One Another's Burdens (6:1-10), & Final Admonitions & Benediction (6:11-18).
Papal Quote o' the Day
"One of the underlying problems today is a loss of appreciation of the virtue of chastity. How important it is to recover this virtue in our own time! Chastity helps us harmonize all the dimensions of our sexuality & thus to live joyfully in accordance with God's will."Little Flower Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, feast day: 22 October)
"Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, & being just what God wants us to be."Saint Quote o' the Day
—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church (1873-1897, feast day: 1 October)
"Who reveals Christ? He's hiding behind something: the Holy Spirit. For on the night of the Last Supper our Lord said, “He will glorify Me; He will reveal Me.” That’s how we know Christ, not just by studying the 'motions of credibility:' prophecies & miracles & 'the consonance of right reason with the aspirations of the heart,' as Vatican I put it. We know Christ through the Spirit. That is why Paul said that only through the Spirit can we call Jesus Lord. Therefore, through the increase of the Spirit, we deepen our knowledge of the Lord.Commentary: The Vatican has announced, this very day, that a miracle has been approved, paving the way for the beatification of Fulton Sheen, at a date yet to be determined/announced. Hurray!
"Who reveals the Spirit? The Church. Too often when people think of the Spirit, they always begin with Pentecost. That was not the beginning of the life of the Spirit. After the Resurrection, our Blessed Lord breathed upon His apostles. 'Receive ye the Holy Spirit; whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven.' First to His Church: this is the beginning of the outpouring of the Spirit. Then at Pentecost there comes another. But see how the Church has grown by this time. The Blessed Mother in the center, the apostles, & then the one hundred twenty others. But it is therefore the Spirit that gradually unfolds [Himself] in the Church. That is how we come to a theological knowledge of the three Persons. When we detach the Spirit from the Church, we are apt to go awry."
—Venerable Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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